Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...

'The Message'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


javachik - Jul 22, 2010 11:15:40 am PDT #14070 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

If you want to get really pissed? Read former Blossom star's comments in this article: [link]


Cashmere - Jul 22, 2010 11:20:49 am PDT #14071 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Dana caused my first belly laugh of the day.

We almost had a sea monkey incident because a play date participant thought the sea monkey habitat was a water toy that you shook upside down. Fortunately, there were no sea monkeys lost. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're breeding.


Trudy Booth - Jul 22, 2010 11:26:43 am PDT #14072 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I think this is another brick in the cult of maternity, another way to make some moms feel superior and others to feel bad.

Or it may not be about you at all.

I know a lot of freaky obnoxious earthier-than-thou in-your-face hippies. They certainly exist. They revel in being weirder or edgier or more out there than anyone around them and never seem to exhaust their incredibly loud theories on energies and crystals and supplements and sumdging-with-sage and sooth-saying and drinking-of-urine and aromatherapy and on and on and on. These people have been irritating me, up close, my entire life.

I also know a lot of people, however, who are continually seeking knowledge: of the earth and our relationship with it, of the intricacies of the human body and mind, of spiritual awareness and a sense of a larger picture. They can also be irritating in their vigor but they're the kids who brought us (back) breast feeding and organic farming and crazy notions like water should be clean by law.

There will always be jerks to capitalize on things, but that doesn't mean that all people who explore these things do so just to be jerks.


Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 11:28:59 am PDT #14073 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, if I had to have my leg amputated, I wouldn't want to eat that.

OMG, this made me laugh really hard.

I just spent a really long time chatting with a coworker instead of pretending to work working.


Aims - Jul 22, 2010 11:29:26 am PDT #14074 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

If you want to get really pissed? Read former Blossom star's comments in this article:

I have no words whatsoever for that article. Fuck her.

Oh wait. Guess I did have the words.


Aims - Jul 22, 2010 11:33:18 am PDT #14075 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

There will always be jerks to capitalize on things, but that doesn't mean that all people who explore these things do so just to be jerks.

No, not everyone, but there seems to be a prevalent (and to me, irritating) attitude that the culture of motherhood revolves, or should revolve around, one-upmanship on all the other mothers around them in the name of raising the bestest special snowflake ever in the whole entire world and will be way better than your stupid kid cause I did "X" and you did not. Sometimes it's about how long you breastfeed. Sometimes it's about owning an $800 stroller. Sometimes it's about eating a placenta.

Those people? Are jerks. And they are becoming more and more numerous everyday within the culture of motherhood.


Cashmere - Jul 22, 2010 11:33:36 am PDT #14076 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Oh, fuck her and the high horse she rode in on.


Cashmere - Jul 22, 2010 11:34:59 am PDT #14077 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I'm referring to Balik's quote:

In an e-mail Bialik sends after our meeting, she goes back to my idea that some women weren't meant to have babies the holistic way. "There are those among us who believe that if the baby can't survive a home labor, it is OK for it to pass peacefully," she writes. "I do not subscribe to this, but I know that some feel that … if a baby cannot make it through birth, it is not favored evolutionarily."

I want to punch her in the face.


Aims - Jul 22, 2010 11:35:27 am PDT #14078 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Yeah. That's the one that made me see rage.


javachik - Jul 22, 2010 11:35:33 am PDT #14079 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Bialik is probably anti-vaccinations, too. 'cause you know, to die of a disease is just part of the evolutionary process.